Qissa is actually a drama film of 2013 in Punjabi language produced in collaboration with Indian --German support. The film released nationwide in India on 20th February 2015. Anup singh is the writer and director of the film. The film features Irrfan khan, Mehar,tillotama shome and Rasika Duggal in main roles.The film was screened in the Contempory World Cinema section at the 2013 TIFF, Canada, where it won the Netpac Award for Wotld or International Asian Film. This is a story of a father who ardently wished for a boy child and at the same time the story of a girl who lost her life only because of she was a girl child. The story is said to take place in Punjab during the partition of 1947. Umber Singh (Irrfan Khan) is a Punjabi who suffered a lot during partition period. He had to shift places with his wife and two daughters. His wish for a boy was so passionate that he told his wife that their next baby will surely be a boy. Though she was doubtful about it she also supported him out of fear. After some months Mehar gave birth to a third child and without looking the gender, Umber declares it as a boy. Though it was a girl child Umber trated her as a boy and named 'him' Kanwar. As Kanwar grows up, umber taught him all of things a Sikh boy should know; strength, endurance, and ability to shoot a gun. All, even his relatives believed his false story about this boy/girl child. He adviced her to ignore her mensural periods, as a symptom of becoming a boy. He often scolded and quarreled with his daughters for hurting his only 'son'. When Kanwar became an adult 'he' had a girlfriend named Neeli and Umber arranged their marriage in a majestic manner. But the real problem starts from their. All their hidden secrets were revealed before Neeli and she understood that kanwar is originally a girl and she can't never be a man as she desired. He can't even provide a child to her and that hurt her most. She wanted to leave kanwar and knowing this Umber traped her and urged her to lie with him for a child. But s she was not willing, Umber tried to rape her and tried to convice kanwar that all these were for her. But mad at this site kanwar shoot him and killed. Later with Neeli kanwar ran away to another town and lived happily with Neeli as lesbian couple. After a long time Kawar went back to her home town to see her parents. But for her surprise she could see her burned house, mother and sisters. There she met her fathers' ghost. He was behind her always. As he followd her to Neeli in a desperate mode she stripes her nakedness to her father and yell out all secrets to her father loudly and all the neighbours overheard her growling and they attempt to break the house and Kanwar escapes from there and wanders through the desert. Her fathers follows her there also. But he was not ready to leave her and his revenge continued 'for an unexpected hectic climax you watch the film 'Quissa'. It will tell the end of Neeli, karwar and Umber. This is story of father who went mad for not having a boy child to carry on his legacy as a strong sikh hunter. The emotional story of a girl who became a pray to her father for this dramatically unfavourable incident. The fantastic performance of the actors especially irrfan, Tillotama and Rasika are the main enrichment of the film and be evidence for the depressed fathers and their psychology. They may go to any end to satisfy their desire and even to rape his daughter-in-law for a child! The finale of the story is heartbreaking that she surrenders to her father with out satisfying any of his dreams. The film received many positive reviews and the critics altogether praised the director and actors for making such a beautiful film. The drawback if any, will vanish before the performance and the social message it conveys.